The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and TravelsPratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker)
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The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels
Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Apostles -- Biography; Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857
I thought I took a steamer and arrived in Kingston at early
dawn. I thought I took up one of the principal streets, directly
northward from the water, and put up at a house of entertainment. I
then inquired for Mr. Caird, and was told that he was in the same
street near to me. I saw him, and tried to tell him of the glorious
fullness of the gospel. He immediately rejected, and refused to
hear me, and commenced to speak reproachfully of me and the cause.
I replied to him in the language of the New Testament: "Doth our
law judge a man before it hear him?" He answered with a sneer: "I
am perfectly willing to judge Mormonism without hearing it; I would
not break my shins to hear it anyhow." I awoke a second time,
feeling satisfied in regard to Mr. Caird.
I arose next morning and told the people that I now knew Mr.
Caird; that he was false, and would bitterly and utterly refuse to
investigate or hear the truth. I told them I had no desire to go to
see him, for the Lord had shown him to me in a dream, and I knew
more about him than all of them. This, however, they could not
realize; they assured me that he was no such man; and, as they had
found me the means to go and see him, and had chosen a man to go
with me, they rather insisted on my going. "Well," said I, "I will
go, but you will find the matter just as I tell you." So I went,
accompanied by a Mr. Goodson.
We landed in Kingston at early dawn, went up the street as I had
dreamed, took lodgings, and then inquired for Mr. Caird, and was
answered that he was near us on the same street. I wrote him a line
seeking an interview. No answer was returned. We waited all day,
and then attended his meeting at evening. He preached well, and
showed great intelligence. I could detect nothing to condemn. As he
was about closing, I prayed the Lord to cause him to show himself,
that I might discern his spirit. On a sudden he broke off from his
subject, and commenced railing against Mormonism at a most horrible
rate. He said he had that day received a line from one of these
impostors, calling him brother, and professing to be of the new
church, which had been lately organized in England by the spirit of
revelation; "by this false profession," he said, "they had deceived
some of his friends in Toronto." Now all these things were lies.
I arose in the meeting and asked to speak, but did not obtain
privilege. I, however, told the people that Mr. Caird had lied; he
had received no line from an Elder of the Church of the Saints
calling him brother, or professing to be of his new church,
organized in England; I defied him to produce such a line. All the
answer the multitude returned to this was to hiss, and to cry,
"Gold Bible! Gold Bible!--New Revelation!" etc.
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